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Long Beach native and longtime sports executive Jack Teele passed away Wednesday night at the age of 87. Teele was a sportswriter at the Independent Press-Telegram for 10 years and then spent 33 years in the front offices around the National Football League, including 21 years with the Los Angeles Rams, where he rose to the rank of vice president of administration. Teele was a long-familiar face i...

At the conclusion of an NFL debut week defined by stifling defense and overmatched offenses, Philip Rivers cocked his right arm and fired a deep pass into the Denver night sky. Seven minutes remained in the AFC West’s Monday night tete-a-tete, and the Chargers, fresh off forcing their second tuover of the fourth quarter, still trailed by two scores as Rivers’ throw soared toward a streaking Trav...

LONG BEACH >> Deshaun Harvey was the spark St. Anthony needed on Friday against Wilson, with the quarterback picking up a crucial third down in the fourth quarter before throwing the wiing touchdown in a 14-6 victory at Clark Field. The Saints (2-0) have won 13 consecutive games at home, and this is their first victory over the Bruins (1-2) in more than 25 years. The local rivalry wasn’t p...

LONG BEACH >> The Long Beach State women’s soccer team started life without senior captain Ashley Gonzales with an inspired performance and 2-0 win over No. 16 Northweste on Thursday at George Allen Field. “We owed ourselves that performance,” LBSU coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “We only had two days of training but the players did a good job leaing and evolving.” Gonzales, who was the B...

For the first time since 1984, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team opens its season with a new head coach. Recently retired head coach Brian Gimmillaro didn’t miss a match in the last 32 years, and only missed one practice in that time (not due to illness but to recruit a high school player). Gimmillaro didn’t even miss practice after he had knee surgery, hobbling into the gym that afte...

LONG BEACH >> The future is now for Long Beach Poly. With numbers dwindling, increased competition for talent from St. John Bosco and other private schools, there’s no telling what will happen next year or after that. Head coach Antonio Pierce’s recent aouncement that the school will drop its junior varsity team was a reminder that there will be consequences for having the two smallest fre...

Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee aounced Monday that Dirtbags head coach Troy Buckley signed a contract extension through the 2022 season. The extension includes four additional years, increased base salary and supplemental compensation based on success on and off the field. “I am very grateful and appreciative of this opportunity to continue to lead this historic program going forwa...

The hype and trash talk between boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and mixed martial arts champ Conor McGregor is about to come to and end and now it’s time to put up or...well it’s time to rumble. And it’s also time to start making plans for where to see the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight in Long Beach, the South Bay and nearby areas for those who want to see it with other fight fans. Here’s a verified li...

LONG BEACH >> A 73rd-minute penalty kick and a shot cleared off of the line in the last seconds of overtime helped the Long Beach State women’s soccer team avoid a season-opening upset to Cal State Northridge on Friday night at George Allen Field. LBSU dominated possession and outshot the visiting Matadors, but the Big West Conference foes finished tied 1-1 in the nonconference match. The game will not count toward the conference standings, but will help both teams’ RPI in the long run. The 49ers (0-0-1) will visit CSUN (0-0-1) on Oct. 26 for the conference regular-season finale. LBSU be...

A CIF Southe Section Division 10 championship and a trip to the CIF State Division 4-A championship game elevated the St. Anthony football program to new heights last year. The success pushed the Saints to Division 9 this season in the new CIF competitive equity format, and head coach Mario Morales said the expectations remain the same. “We’re not going to compare ourselves to our team last season,” he said. “We want to continue to prove that we can be competitive and prove that we’re the top team in the division.” The Saints lost key pieces on offense and defense, including last year’s CIF...

MANHATTAN BEACH >> While players down on the sand Thursday were trying to qualify to get into the main draw of this week’s Manhattan Beach Open, four rather terrific beach volleyball players were up on the pier for the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring their 2016 championships at the granddaddy of them all. Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson, and Emily Day and Brittany Hochevar were the happy recipients of plaques they could take home. And they were overjoyed knowing that identical plaques would be forever embedded in the concrete deck of the pier. For Gibb, it was his third such honor, so his ...

LOS ANGELES >> All-Pac 12 Oregon standout Norman Xiong, Virginia Tech’s Mark Lawrence Jr. and Oklahoma State’s Hayden Wood somehow managed to separate themselves from the pack on the first day of play at the 117th U.S. Amateur Championship with 6-under 64s. Xiong, an 18-year-old San Diego nati...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. >> Lucas Glover walked off the 18th fairway at Quail Hollow still feeling slightly underdressed. He wasn’t alone. “I don’t recognize some of these guys out here, and I’m sure they probably don’t recognize me either,” Glover said. For the first time in its 99-year history, the P...

Long Beach leaders on Tuesday agreed to begin negotiations for a five-year agreement with the Grand Prix Association to continue operating the aual IndyCar event that zooms through downtown each April. The city evaluated two race event proposals, one from IndyCar, the other from the World Automobi...

COSTA MESA >> In March, the Chargers signed Russell Okung, making him one of the NFL’s highest-paid left tackles. In April, the Chargers drafted three offensive linemen, including two within the first three rounds. So why — a week into August — are the Chargers starting a former practice-squad...

Pat Gudauskas competes in quarterfinals match against Tomas Hermes during the US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach Pier in Huntington Beach on Sunday, August 6, 2017.(Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG) Kanoa Igarashi competes in the quarterfinals match against Richardo Chri...

It is well known that Long Beach has placed more players on the U.S. Olympic water polo team than any other city. Few know, however, how far back the city’s contributions go. As the president of the Aquatic Capital of America Foundation, I was researching candidates for induction into the Long Beach...

By The Associated Press Jimmy Walker endured rain delays of nearly five hours and shot a 5-under 65 on Friday to build a two-shot lead at the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio. Walker finally saw some good results in a year marked by coping with Lyme disease and bouts of fatigue. The timing co...

It was an ill wind that blew San Pedro’s big chance at hosting an Olympics event right out of reach — all the way into cross-harbor tourism rival Long Beach. Two years ago, news that San Pedro’s waterfront was picked as the potential L.A. Olympics sailing venue was hailed by locals who have long tri...

LYNWOOD >> Famous NBA players and not-so-famous collegians have all played a part in the development of one of Southe Califoia’s key basketball leagues. Players from schools such as USC, Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton compete in the eight-team Real Run Basketball league Mondays t...